Goonhub
12-03-2022, 12:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-03-2022, 12:20 PM by UrsulaMejor. Edited 2 times in total.)
We don't have a set region/locality for interpretting slurs. There are several terms we do not allow that are common and relatively inoffensive words in America that are offensive in Britain, for example, that we do not allow, and a really obvious common British word we do not allow because it is offensive in America. Those obviously aren't the only two regions that exist, but that's just the easiest example of two terms that represent a mutually exclusive region.
The "Gray line" is, ultimately, very very easy to stay away from. Most people have zero notes about language. In fact, the vast majority of players have never had to be talked to about some term or another in years of playing. Of those that are talked to at least once, the most common response is "oh, didn't know" and it never comes up again.
How you respond to being told to stop matters a lot more than the thing you actually said in most cases. The only auto-ban examples are the obvious terms that don't need to be said. If you can speak english well enough to play, you know what words will get you auto-banned on this server.
There, in my opinion, isn't an issue here. Our rules are socially, not technically, defined. You either absorb the community vibe and adjust or you rapidly find yourself out the door (either because you didn't like the vibes and left, or we showed you the way forcefully)
The "Gray line" is, ultimately, very very easy to stay away from. Most people have zero notes about language. In fact, the vast majority of players have never had to be talked to about some term or another in years of playing. Of those that are talked to at least once, the most common response is "oh, didn't know" and it never comes up again.
How you respond to being told to stop matters a lot more than the thing you actually said in most cases. The only auto-ban examples are the obvious terms that don't need to be said. If you can speak english well enough to play, you know what words will get you auto-banned on this server.
There, in my opinion, isn't an issue here. Our rules are socially, not technically, defined. You either absorb the community vibe and adjust or you rapidly find yourself out the door (either because you didn't like the vibes and left, or we showed you the way forcefully)